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Health Robotics introduces Virtual High-Availability Architecture for CytoCare and i.v.STATION robots

As part of its I.V. Room of the Future initiative to cooperate with other industry leaders, Health Robotics today announced the immediate availability of its revolutionary Virtual High-Availability Architecture (up to 99.99%), including state-of-the-art, virtualization compliant, cluster and fail-over, disaster recovery, and back-up solutions for its CytoCare and i.v.STATION robots [with future expansion to TPNstation when available], and its i.v.SOFT Workflow Engine for manual compounding.

7 Apr 2010

Major social science study to accompany Bovine TB BVDP

A major social science study to accompany the Government's Bovine TB Badger Vaccine Deployment Project, to be launched this summer [2010], will be led by a researcher from the University of the West of England, with colleagues from the Countryside and Community Research Institute, in collaboration with Exeter and Cardiff Universities, Drew Associates Limited, the Veterinary Laboratories Agency and the Food and Environment Research Agency.

7 Apr 2010

Prostate cancer testing: Doctors should warn men of possible distress

Doctors should warn men that prostate cancer testing may lead to anxiety and distress, say Cancer Research UK experts.

7 Apr 2010

Aerocrine AB experiences low first-quarter sales development

Aerocrine AB today announced that its first quarter sales development has been below expectations. Revenues are estimated to reach approximately 18 MSEK compared to 26,9 MSEK previous year.

7 Apr 2010

Future of health care in practice at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

The future of health care is here. And it's in practice at Cincinnati Children's.

7 Apr 2010

Parents fail to warn children about sexual abuse perpetrated by relatives and known individuals

Despite evidence to the contrary, parents who talk to their children about sexual abuse incorrectly identify strangers as the most likely source of abuse, according to a team of researchers led by Esther Deblinger, PhD, co-director of the CARES (Child Abuse Research Education and Services) Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey(UMDNJ)-School of Osteopathic Medicine.

7 Apr 2010

Payers, benefits administrators look for ways to reduce costs of managing benefits programs

Sending communications on healthcare benefits through the mail is an important channel in engaging members as they make benefits decisions and as program managers seek to influence member behavior, according to a study on Healthcare Benefit Communications Preferences by Pitney Bowes Management Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc.

7 Apr 2010

Gerresheimer AG sets up new sales office in Moscow

Gerresheimer AG has set up a sales office in Moscow. The new representation centre will intensify the Group's business in pharmaceutical primary packaging and drug-delivery systems. "This is a strategically important step to further develop the fast-growing pharma & healthcare markets of Russia and neighboring regions," says Gerresheimer CEO Dr. Axel Herberg.

7 Apr 2010

Thomson Reuters ranks UC San Diego Health System as one of nation's top 15 major teaching hospitals

UC San Diego Health System was recently listed as one the nation's top 15 major teaching hospitals by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency. This is first time UC San Diego Health System has been recognized with this honor.

7 Apr 2010

HOLCOMB C3-R cures bobsledder of impending blindness, helps win gold at 2010 Winter Olympics

It was an amazing triumph of the will, when the U.S. Bobsled Team, led by captain Steve Holcomb, took home the first Gold in 62 years at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. An amazing feat, yet only the tip of the iceberg, for 2 years prior Holcomb underwent a brand new procedure to cure his impending blindness.

7 Apr 2010

Mobile compression device effective in preventing blood clots after hip replacement surgery

A mobile compression device is as effective as medication at preventing the formation of blood clots after hip replacement surgery but provides greater patient safety, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

7 Apr 2010

A-Life Hospital signs agreement to provide facility outpatient-based CAC services to OhioHealth

A-Life Medical, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today that A-Life Hospital, its wholly owned subsidiary, has entered into an agreement with OhioHealth, a Columbus, Ohio-based hospital system, effective March 15, 2010.

7 Apr 2010

Antigens of both influenza B virus strains can improve influenza vaccines

Vaccines likely would work better in protecting children from flu if they included both strains of influenza B instead of just one, Saint Louis University research has found.

7 Apr 2010

Actual cost of blood 37% higher than previously estimated

A new blood transfusion cost analysis study published in the April 2010 issue of Transfusion, a peer-reviewed academic journal, shows that when all of the complex cost factors leading up to and after a red blood cell (RBC) transfusion are considered, the actual cost of blood is substantially higher than previously estimated.

7 Apr 2010

New seminar series "Physical Care of Duchenne" unveiled

Duchenne Therapy Network today unveiled a new seminar series called, "Physical Care of Duchenne." The course, which includes two separate sessions taught by Jennifer Wallace, PT, will be held at the Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa.

7 Apr 2010

Kofax to provide large Australian insurance provider with document capture solution

Kofax plc, the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, today announced it will provide a document capture solution to one of Australia's largest insurance providers and leading workers compensation insurer. The value of the contract to Kofax is approximately $800,000.

7 Apr 2010

Implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to improve health quality

The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital report finding that currently implemented systems have little effect on measures such as patient mortality, surgical complications, length of stay and costs.

7 Apr 2010

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Health Robotics introduces Virtual High-Availability Architecture for CytoCare and i.v.STATION robots

Major social science study to accompany Bovine TB BVDP

Prostate cancer testing: Doctors should warn men of possible distress

Aerocrine AB experiences low first-quarter sales development

Future of health care in practice at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Parents fail to warn children about sexual abuse perpetrated by relatives and known individuals

Payers, benefits administrators look for ways to reduce costs of managing benefits programs

Gerresheimer AG sets up new sales office in Moscow

Thomson Reuters ranks UC San Diego Health System as one of nation's top 15 major teaching hospitals

HOLCOMB C3-R cures bobsledder of impending blindness, helps win gold at 2010 Winter Olympics

Mobile compression device effective in preventing blood clots after hip replacement surgery

A-Life Hospital signs agreement to provide facility outpatient-based CAC services to OhioHealth

Antigens of both influenza B virus strains can improve influenza vaccines

Actual cost of blood 37% higher than previously estimated

New seminar series "Physical Care of Duchenne" unveiled

Kofax to provide large Australian insurance provider with document capture solution

Implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to improve health quality

Sigma-Aldrich, HSI sign distribution agreement for patented stable isotope labeled synthetic reagents

CAV1 gene variation contributes to kidney transplant failure: JAMA

Conservatives claim that national insurance freeze will save NHS £200m

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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